Michael Crawford

At a Glance:

Michael Crawford has been a Project Contributor since July 2007, has written 526 entries and currently lives in New York, NY.

Bio

Michael Crawford has a wide range of experience in political advocacy, new media, and grassroots organizing. He was co-founder and co-chair of D.C. for Marriage, a grassroots group that helped to successfully pass the D.C. marriage bill.

Michael is New Media Director for Freedom to Marry, the leading campaign to win marriage nationwide.

He served as Associate Field Director at Human Rights Campaign specializing in working with state and local advocacy organizations to advance pro-LGBT legislation. As Communications Director at Energy Action Coalition, a coalition of youth and student organizations building a clean energy movement, Michael developed media strategies to tell the stories of young people against man-made global warming. He also served as Online Director for Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

He was an organizer of the 2000 Millennium March on Washington for LGBT Equal Rights, which brought together more than 750,000 advocates for LGBT equality.

For his work on the freedom to marry in D.C., he was named as one of The Advocate Magazine's 2009 People of the Year and one of the Washington Blade’s “10 People Who Make Us Proud.”

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Talk about putting your money where your mouth is: Facebook cofounder Chris Hughes and his partner, Freedom to Marry political director Sean Eldridge, have a made a huge commitment to the nonprofit push for marriage equality nationwide. The couple will...Read More

Who was it that said the Tea Party doesn't care about social issues such LGBT equality? Whoever it was got it so wrong. Witness Republican senate candidate Sharon Angle's recent comments about marriage: I confess that we are a nation...Read More

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